Film Quotes

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

Real film is light; digital is electricity.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

My films are about embarrassment.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.